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ruption of a Prakrit genitive in (=^^j=^c|pQj). Again, that the 
feminine nouns in ^ which correspond to the masc. nouns in and ^ and 
to the neuter nouns in ^ and t", and which yield the oblique form in ij, 
were originally feminine nouns in ^Tr==T^T==T*f'T ; and that their oblique 
form in ^ is a corruption of a Prakrit genitive in = Tp?TR. 
Similarly it may he concluded that the masc. nouns in ^ and neuter 
nouns in ^ which yield the oblique form in cfT, were originally masc. and 
neuter nouns in ^ or i. e ., in or ^'4 = or ^3^; and that their 
oblique form in is a corruption of a Prakrit Genitive in 
; and again that the feminine nouns in 3T which correspond to the 
masc. nouns in and neuter nouns in vs, and which yield the oblique form 
in if, were originally fern, nouns in ^T, i. e ., in ; and that their 
oblique form in ^ is a corruption of a Prakrit genitive in 
As regards the oblique form in ^ or of the inflexional base of certain 
nouns in the Hindi-class Gaurian languages, their case is exactly like that 
of the last mentioned class of Marathi words. The two classes of nouns 
correspond to each other in the two classes of Gaurian languages, e. g., 
Hindi 8F5T horse , ohl. ip#, is in Marathi ip^T, obi. ip^^IT. And their 
oblique forms must therefore have the same nature, and must admit of the 
same explanation; viz. that they are the organic genitive of particular 
Prakrit bases formed by the affix. ^ ( i . e ., ending in ^Qfr). 
The evidences showing that there is in Gaurian a class of nouns, which 
are derived from Prakrit bases formed by means of the peculiar, pleonastic 
affix are the following. In the first place, it may he remarked, that all 
Sanskrit words which have a base in ( i. e.. formed by the affix 3f) and 
have passed into the Gaurian through the Prakrit, terminate in the Gaurian 
in %(WT) or ^r, and not in ^ or "3; e. g., horse is Skr. ip"3Rf, nom. sing. 
i*T^:, Prak. or Gaurian ilpf! or ip^T ;-Skr. ^"2^: stiff, Pr. 
^T3T%T or Gaurian ^Tfl or qT3T •—Skr. the champaka tree , Prak. 
xfTOT or Gaurian or ; — Skr. keeper , Prak. - 37 ^%, 
Gaurian or PRTT (an affix) Skr. holder , Pr. sjTCip or ^Rip, 
Gaurian ^TTT or ^TCT (an affix).—There are only a small number of 
nouns of this kind. But on the other hand all Sanskrit nouns, the 
base of which ends in only, and which have passed into the Gaurian 
through the Prakrit, terminate in the Gaurian either in % (^l) or 
in ^ (p3), evidently according as they did or did not assume, in their 
passage through Prakrit, the affix 3T; e. g., sweet in Gaurian (Hindi) 
is both and ; both represent the Skr. fpg: ; but Skr. Hr: may he 
represented in the Prak. by faffi ( i . e ., Hr:) and by Bflf ip ( i . e., Hr^P) ; 
now Prak. fall becomes the Gaurian and Prakrit ffffijT becomes the 
Gaurian #i§T (ffilS T). Again heat is in Skr. sjsr:, and pot both having 
bases in In Prak. they may assume the forms of^F or qrp% and E|#T 
